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Bruce Kelly

InvestmentNews

Bruce Kelly

Senior Columnist

26 years experience

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Bruce's specialty topics

Legal and compliance Advisor compensation Alternative investments

Bruce is Senior Columnist for InvestmentNews, a leading publication for financial advisors and the wealth management industry.

An award-winning journalist, Bruce’s career at InvestmentNews began in 2000, two years after the launch of the newspaper. He has covered the brokerage industry ever since, focusing on financial advisors’ pay, the products they sell, and the firms on and off Wall Street where they work.

His reporting in the financial crisis 2008 and thereafter shed light on the many shortcomings of the financial advice industry, from weak regulation to the collapse of many broker-dealers.

Bruce writes an award-winning column, On Advice, and his daily breaking news reports give clarity and insight into what’s happening behind closed doors at the largest brokerage firms in the country.

Before becoming a journalist, Bruce taught middle school and high school English in Manhattan and Caracas, Venezuela, for a decade. He is the co-author of a 2010 book, “Financial Serial Killers,” and has two children.

How I think about writing for this industry…

“I love covering the financial advice business. We write about financial advisors and how they care about clients' lifesavings - what is more important than that?”

Awards and recognition

2 SABEW awards
Neal Award

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Co-author of "Financial Serial Killers"

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WIREHOUSES AUG 25, 2020

ETrade’s ‘better mousetrap’ is its stock plan business, analyst says

Morgan Stanley's acquisition of the business will improve its transfer of stock plan clients to its wealth management platform

WIREHOUSES AUG 23, 2020

What will Morgan Stanley’s James Gorman do with ETrade’s custody business?

The brokerage's Advisor Services won’t be an open doorway for Morgan Stanley’s 16,000 advisers to become independent RIAs — at least not yet

OPINION AUG 21, 2020

Phony Philly adviser latest snagged for unregistered securities

Dean Vagnozzi sold millions in unregistered securities to clients who weren't wealthy enough to buy them. Why did the SEC take so long to drop the hammer on him?